From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:14:19 GMT
Subject: Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?
Message-ID: <87ps0wzufo.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0709051634190.21186@xanadu.home>

On 5 Sep 2007, Nicolas Pitre stated:

> On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 	git fetch
>
> I think that would be a much better idea to simply decrease the 
> fetch.unpackLimit default value.

I think `git fetch' works reasonably well as is: unless you're fetching
every five minutes you often find you get packs anyway. There's no point
packing incrementally *too* often, or you replace a lots-of-objects
problem with a lots-of-packs problem, after which you're worse off than
when you started.